i think i will be voting for av. that way the politicians will have to interact and please more ppl for their votes. at the moment they just serve
enough ppl to get a majority that will win. it would also take politics away from a 2 horse race and make it easier for other candidates to get in.for
too long its been a 2 horse race its either labour or conservative. But they dont get in because thy are good, they get in because the other has
cocked the country up. ppl dont seem to realise that there are other parties out there, they just switch votes to the one not in power thinking it
will sort it out. in my view its not a democracy at the moment.

In a nutshell AV will make voting fairer - MPs will have to work harder to win and retain second, third and fourth (etc.) choice votes and a broader
range of politics will be represented in Parliament.

The current system means British politics will always be dominated by the Tories and Labour, which clearly isn't working.

You can still vote for only 1 candidate if you wish - you can vote for as many as you want, it just means that those with additional preferences can
have more choice, and more people can be represented in the final result.

I'd rather cut my nose to spite my face than have the Liberal Democrats in power permanently.

Because that's all this exercise is for, it's to ensure a permanent Liberal Democrat & A.N.Other coalition government. Think about it ... the
Liberals permanently in government. That's every bit as unacceptable as the current position, it's just replacing one wrong with another.

Rather than see this as a vote on AV, see this as an opportunity to cast your opinion of the First Past The Post (FPTP) system.

It was FPTP that has given us the current Government and the opportunity to vote. Typically, FPTP has given us parties that enjoy a majority of seats
in Westminister, but this time, the British people voted in such a way as to not give one party a clear majority of seats in westminister.

Does this mean that AV is a better system? Lets have a look at my local constituency

Number of people of the electral register - 90,561

Number of votes casted - 57,973 Turnover 64%

Votes casts for the winning candidate - 23,679. That's 26% of the total number of people on the electral register and 40% of the votes cast.

So 60% of those who voted did not vote for the winning candidate and 74% of those on the electral register did not vote for the winning candidate.

At least we are being given the opportunitym to vote on this issue. Closer union with Europe was not deemed important enough for us to vote on!

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